Interpretation of Regulation of Jilin Province on Optimizing Business Environment

Updated : 2020-09-30Source : CCFAO
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After being reviewed and approved by the 11th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th Jilin Provincial People's Congress, the Regulation of Jilin Province on Optimizing the Business Environment went into effect on May 30, 2019, providing a stronger guarantee and support for optimizing the business environment at the institutional level.

The regulation is an important local regulation in the business environment construction of Jilin province. What are the clauses on the implementation of fair treatment of market entities and on the cleanup of the market environment in the regulation? What are the requirements of the regulation for improving government services? Recently, head of the Provincial Government Service and Digital Construction Administration (Provincial Soft Environment Office) answered the questions mentioned above.

There are 7 chapters in the regulation with 73 clauses, fully embodying the legislative idea of strengthening service guarantees and promoting high-quality development. The regulation has specific clauses on implementing fair treatment to market subjects and cleaning up the market environment, according to Liu Xiangtao, director of the Business Environment Assessment Department of the Provincial Government Service and Digital Construction Administration.

In terms of building a development environment for fair competition, the regulation prohibits local protectionism, specified transactions, hidden barriers and other unreasonable conditions in the area of market access, examination and approval, business operation, financing, bidding and government procurement, so as to create sufficient market space for the development of market entities.

In terms of reducing the burden of taxes and fees on businesses, the regulation requires collections of enterprise-related government charges, government managed funds and enterprise-related deposits shall follow the lower limit standard and authorized government departments shall follow the lower limit standard to set tax rates.

In terms of overhauling and standardizing intermediary services, the regulation specifies the scope of intermediary services that can be retained as conditions for administrative examination and approval and orders the establishment of a sound punishment and elimination mechanism, as well as an assessment and evaluation system for intermediary service agencies.

In terms of strengthening social credibility construction, the regulation promotes the collection of credit information of various market entities, so as to achieve an interconnected, sharing and opening incentive mechanism and to provide various policy support for market entities with good credit.

According to Liu Xiangtao, the regulation makes institutional arrangements in the process of legislation, law enforcement and justice to promote the building of a sound legal environment.

——In the legislative process, the regulation urges to formulate laws, regulations, rules and documents related to the economic activities of market entities, to listen to the opinions of market entities in various forms and to implement a review system for fair competition. For those who impede fair competition and infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of market entities, recording reviews and assessment clean-ups should be launched to provide an institutional guarantee for optimizing the business environment.

——In the law enforcement process, the regulation urges to strictly implement the system of disclosing information on administrative law enforcement, the system for recording the entire enforcement process and the legal review system of major administrative law enforcement decisions, so as to promote the openness and fairness of administrative law enforcement.

——In the judicial process, the regulation urges to take compulsory and preservative measures to minimize the impact on the regular production and operation of businesses, especially in these situations that are generally not allowed to be sealed, detained or froze. The regulation also makes corresponding specifications for judicial organs to take priority in the implementation of various enforcement methods and for procuratorial organs to adopt a variety of supervision means to carry out procuratorial supervision.